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The Long Shot (1939)
Directed by Charles Lamont
Overview
A racetrack melodrama, The Long Shot features Marsha Hunt and Gordon Jones as trainers of a thoroughbred horse. Despite the rivalries of their parents, the couple prepares to jointly enter the Santa Anita handicap. The odds are against their entry, but Hunt and Jones have every confidence of winning. Just before the starting bugle, gangsters intrude, demanding that the trainers throw the Big Race.
Length 69 minutes
Actors
Gordon Jones | Marsha Hunt | Harry Davenport | C. Henry Gordon | George Meeker | George E. Stone | Frank Darien | Tom Kennedy | Emerson Treacy | Gay Seabrook | Benny Burt | Jimmy Robinson | Denmore Chief | James Keefe | Wilson Benge | Dorothy Fay | Earle Hodgins | Wilbur Mack | Lee Phelps | Norman Phillips Jr. | Jason Robards Sr. | Claire Rochelle | Carl Meyer | Joe Hernandez